Lateral view of a Female Hexagenia limbata (Ephemeridae) (Hex) Mayfly Dun from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin

Hex Mayflies
Hexagenia limbata

The famous nocturnal Hex hatch of the Midwest (and a few other lucky locations) stirs to the surface mythically large brown trout that only touch streamers for the rest of the year.

Of all the pools I've fished, this one was most deserving of the colorful little brook trout it held.

From Mystery Creek # 89 in New York

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Lateral view of a Onocosmoecus (Limnephilidae) (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This specimen keys pretty easily to Onocosmoecus, and it closely resembles a specimen from Alaska which caddis expert Dave Ruiter recognized as this genus. As with that specimen, the only species in the genus documented in this area is Onocosmoecus unicolor, but Dave suggested for that specimen that there might be multiple not-yet-distinguished species under the unicolor umbrella and it would be best to stick with the genus-level ID. I'm doing the same for this one.

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27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.

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Fly Fishing The Rogue River

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General Region	Pacific Northwest
Specific Location	Rogue River, Southern Oregon
Dates Fished	Friday, June 6th & Saturday, June 7th
Time of Day	Evening hatch on Friday, Morning hatch on Saturday
Fish Caught	Rainbow Trout
Conditions & Hatches	Sunny and warm (about 85 degrees) during the day cooling off (to about 65 degrees) for the evening. Friday night there was a pretty nice salmon fly hatch where the trout were going crazy for Stimulator patterns. Saturday morning there were all kinds of gnats out, but I had no success as far as fish goes.

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RogueBum
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RogueBum on Jun 10, 2014June 10th, 2014, 9:54 am EDT

It was a great to trip to the Upper Rogue River (in beautiful Southern Oregon) over this past weekend. I took a 3wt glass rod and a 5wt graphite rod with me and hiked about 45 minutes down into a little canyon that the river flows through.

I had my daughter with me and a good friend from work and we all decided to camp for the night so we could hit the morning hatch. We arrived on Friday evening just in time to set up camp and get geared up. The trout were biting like crazy! Rising to anything over a size 10 hook, they were feeding on a salmon fly hatch that we were not expecting.

Dinner was good that night! Nothing under 10".

The next morning though, it seemed like the river dried up. In 2 hours of fishing, I didn't get one grab or see a single rise! I started with the Stimulator pattern... nothing. I switched to a Parachute Adams with a Prince Nymph dropper... nothing. Finally I went to a Griffith's Gnat because of what appeared to be a million gnats flying around everywhere... nothing.

Maybe we caught them all the night before ;) Fun trip though!

Motrout

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Motrout on Jun 10, 2014June 10th, 2014, 10:07 am EDT

What a beautiful river you've got there. As for your lack of success the second day.......fishing's weird sometimes. Who knows, but they were probably too full of salmonflies to care about anything else.

Thanks for posting!

"I don't know what fly fishing teaches us, but I think it's something we need to know."-John Gierach
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Roguerat

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Roguerat on Jun 10, 2014June 10th, 2014, 12:43 pm EDT

RogueBum,

Welcome!

Your Rogue is a bit faster (and has some real rocks...not cobble) than our version here in Michigan. Great pictures of a beautiful trout stream, I'd like to fish it before I get too old to wade.

Roguerat

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